1. Thank you very much for your time! Before we introduce your new release to our readers – what kind of drink would you recommend to zip on while they listen to your new music?
If you can source a Four Loko from when they still had caffeine that would be perfect. And if not I’d say just make a Red Bull + White Claw.
2. Please give us an update about – new single, new album, tour dates, new videos?!
On Friday the music video for my hilarious and existentially terrifying single Orbo is dropping! I’m so excited, I worked with amazing director Michelle Gold to bring the vision of a digital, orbular version of myself to life, and I can’t wait for you to see it. I’m actually coming at you from tour in Chicago right now, but I’ll be back in NYC for a blow out concert on November 30th at Friends & Lovers in Brooklyn.
3. We live in times of many conspiracy theories. Which, harmless, theory would you wish were true? (For example Dinos living inside Earth or E.T. living in a home in California)
If I’m being vulnerable right now, I know I’m a half-elf. But my parents won’t admit it to me. Because they’re COWARDS.
4. What fashion style or brand would best describe your music?
You guys have to check out what Sam Branman is doing right now. I honestly wouldn’t have been able to answer this question before working with Sam; he’s a designer that does everything but it almost always comes out colorful, queer, sleek, sexy, and a little bit wacky. I’m so excited to have him designing my looks for my upcoming tour.
5. Tell us more about your songs! Topics! Message!?
I make funny, scary, unapologetically queer pop music that will get stuck in your head until you die. When I started out my goal was to make comedy music that was actually good pop music — or in other words, great pop music that was also really funny. If it comes on in the club and you can’t hear the words you’ll still dance and love it, and if you hate pop you’re still going to laugh. The themes in my music are almost always me embodying my worst traits and fears and making them funny, from my song Your Dad where I’m a possessive, manipulative father-fucker who destroys a family, to Orbo, which is a song about a digital version of me forced to live forever in a nightmarish computer world. So, you know. Silly stuff.
6. Beside music, do you have any special talents?
I love to surf. I grew up surfing in California and I take the train to Rockaway Beach in Queens weekly to shred the tiny little brown waves I’ve come to love so much. I spend way too much time on the beach; in the Barbie movie when Ken said „My job is just beach,“ I felt that.
7. Name 5 things we all should know about you as an artist?!
- My music is a love letter to all things pop, so if you love the main pop girls and unhinged humor I think you’ll love my music.
- I’m severely mentally ill but in the fun way. And I’m pretty much just doing this to get Charli XCX or Dua Lipa to hang out with me.
- My creative process is mainly me walking back and forth in my living room rhythmically saying, „what’s funny… what’s funny what’s funny what’s funny… what’s funny…“
- My favorite thing in the world is performing live for people and making them happy, seeing them laugh at shocking unexpected jokes or mouthing „wait this is actually catchy“ to their friends. If you come see me live after reading this, come tell me and I’ll give you a big hug and buy you a drink.
- All of my songs are true, even the one about me getting married to Bowser from Mario.
8. How did you learn to sing/ to write/ to play??
I’ve been singing and playing instruments my entire life, my mom actually put me in piano lessons when I was 4 (shout out to the A.C. Stelle Middle School band, in which I played the flute). And I’ve been doing comedy since I was 14, which was a great outlet for my lifelong attention seeking behavior. But I actually didn’t put those things together until I was in my 20s. I was afraid to do something that almost no one was doing and carve my own path, but I took the leap, taught myself a little music production, and started bringing my songs to comedy open mics. Now that I’m traveling for comedy and playing bigger and bigger shows, I’m so proud of myself for taking that jump and I can’t imagine doing anything else ever again.
9. A question you’d like to answer, but never been asked in an interview before?! + Answer pls
Question: What is your greatest non-sexual fantasy?
Answer: Hibernation. I want to almost die in a blizzard and then be taken in by a family of bears for the winter and sleep in the arms of a bear for MONTHS. And if you don’t get that, you never will.
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